Nairobi /Brussels, 4 July 2019 What’s new? Officials representing the Sidama, southern Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group, are threatening to unilaterally declare the formation of a new regional state within Ethiopia’s federation on 18 July, unless the government meets a constitutionally mandated deadline to organise a referendum on the issue before that …

Addis Abeba, July 04/2019 – Yidnekachew Girma Mogessie, a medical student at St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College, in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia, is one of 12 students from around the world named recipients of the 2019 Student Projects for Health awards presented by the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates …

Addis Abeba, July 03/2019 – Following the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding on Reinforced Partnership with Ethiopia in April of this year, European Patent Office (EPO) President António Campinos and the Director-General of the Ethiopian Intellectual Property Office (EIPO), Ermias Yemanebirhan, signed their first Biennial Work Plan for 2019-21 …